When the team saw how closely correlated the appearance of water tracks was to their humidity readings, they knew the tracks were the result of deliquescence and that the process was key to keeping the pond salty enough to persist.

There exists no real sacrifice, no duende, and as a result the poems end up gesturing toward transformation without showing any real experience of it: "Somehow, she's the turning poignancy-- / deliquescence of iconostatic applaud / And shades of sumptuousness to come.

The title's "passing" as a metaphor for the fluctuation and eventual deliquescence of Grandison's feelings towards Colonel Owens euphemizes the cheerful self-slaughter of the prodigal slave (indeed, the colonel "kill[s] the fatted calf" for him) and replaces him with a resolute freedman.

And because Oppen corresponded with Robert Duncan, Feld includes Duncan in his assessment of the Objectivists, and he says the San Francisco poet's fade-out was "a product of social, political, sexual, and almost masonic deliquescence.

Hamlet's deeply ambivalent response to the ghost resides, I would suggest, in his inability to reconcile its implicit contradictions: the seeming vitality of its determinate form (the ghost as idol), with the materiality of its unbecoming--the mindlessly generative rot within, the undiscriminating deliquescence.

There's bound to be some loose talk about global warming and the deliquescence of the ice-caps but everybody knows in their hearts that this calamity is most likely to happen long after they themselves have expired.

The requirement of general monotonicity across time sieves out short-term and nonpersistent variations that occur such as due to different governing ideologies or presidential personalities; instead, it helps us to identify long-term and persistent shifts across time that cannot be anticipated (even) with the acknowledgement of the deliquescence of politics.

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